Skills:
Tissue Culture Techniques - Dissection of fish, obtaining organs from fish - Cell and tissue culture techniques (cancer cell lines and mouse embryonic stem cell culture) - Transfection of cell culture with fluorescence proteins; mainly GFP - Efficient handling of Fluorescence microscope for observation of cells - Cryopreservation and maintaining stocks - Perform passage of cell culture and maintain plates Viable cell count in haemocytometer - Plant tissue culture techniques, Mushroom Cultivation Wet Laboratory Techniques - Plasmid DNA preps and PCR amplified product column purification, Plasmid construction, restriction enzyme digestion, ligation, vector design and related techniques used in molecular cloning - Extraction of RNA from fish tissues, Reverse Transcription of RNA to cDNA - Chip technology for gel electrophoresis for quantification of molecules present in PCR product - Sequencing sample preparation and amplification of DNA (PCR), bacterial colony PCR, Gel electrophoresis - Micro-satellite DNA amplification - SDS- PAGE, Western blot and Southern blot analysis - Microbiology techniques such as preparation of agar plates with antibiotics, media/buffer preparation, isolation of pure culture, autoclave, streaking agar plates with efficiency, electroporation Instruments and Software: - Frequent use and good knowledge in MEGA, Oligo primer designing, Biosearch technology for probe designing softwares - Agilent Bioanalyser, Applied Sciences 7500 Fast real time PCR machine, 3130 xl Genetic analyzer for Microsatellite DNA, Any standard PCR machine, NanoDrop 2000, BSL-2 biosafety cabinets/hoods